It is boat season and migrating humans attempt more perilous journeys across the Mediterranean. Europe is a dream but not always a destiny. Paper-sketched holding centres are a plan for refugees: some sand-blown pop-ups in north Africa and the Middle East – not a solution, just a siesta for peace. News from the front lineContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘Composition at a Toumani and Sidiki Diabate Concert’”
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100-Word Fiction: ‘Boat People’
I dreamed we had to cross the creek where the old ford once made it easy. The river was deep and the current strong. Silt turned the water brown. Or was the river a lake too wide to swim across? Or was it a sea? There were boats crammed full of people, shouting, who stoodContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘Boat People’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘A Raft for the Medusa’
A decade’s unreported anarchy brings blood and dust, charted in numberless rusted cells where violence tells and torture proves. They flee across the desert by truck, in the hands and debt of gangs, to make border disappearances. In Libya and Yemen the smuggled bodies pay for thieved papers with degraded favours. Honours are all lost.Continue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘A Raft for the Medusa’”
100-Word Fiction: ‘But If It Is What We Believe’
You must believe that what we did was not wrong. You must believe that we did not what was wrong. What you must believe… that we did… was not wrong. Must you believe that what we did was not wrong? You must not believe that what we did was wrong. What was wrong that weContinue reading “100-Word Fiction: ‘But If It Is What We Believe’”
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